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Bob Alberti
@a1batross.bsky.social
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Comedian, author, photographer, Internet pioneer (Gopher, RFC1436), MMORPG pioneer (GamBit MultiSystems).
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Now I have to bring out the bigger guns ;-)
Copies of the original D&D manuals signed by Dave Arneson to MAR Barker, and Dave's mimeo for review of Barker's ms. for Empire of the Petal Throne, dated Feb 1974.
(I was a friend of both and treasurer of the TekumelFoundation.org curator of Barker's IP)
December 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Original D&D manuals signed by Dave Arneson to MAR Barker. On top of Arneson's mimeo-for-review of Barker's EPT ms. dated Feb 1974
(full disclosure, I was the treasurer of the Tekumel Foundation and curated Barker's IP related to his game)
#D&D #Tekumel #EmpireOfThePetalThrone #MARBarker
Copies of the four original Dungeons and Dragons books (not AD&D, D&D) with Dave Arneson's signature scrawled over Arneson's name. MAR Barker's ms. of Empire of the Petal Throne given to Dave Arneson dated Feb 8, 1974. A copy of the first volume of D&D "Men & Magic" from Dave Arneson to MAR Barker, dated Feb 19, 1974
December 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Missing is the middle image showing University students being run down by two-lane bidirectional auto traffic for fifty years.
#history #minneapolis #foshaytower #universityofminnesota #lightrail #streetcar #transit
A diptych of the same location on the East Bank of Washington Avenue in Minneapolis facing downtown Minneapolis. The older image on the left shows a trolley car in the foreground with people boarding and on the horizon one can see the Foshay Tower. The newer image on the right shows a light rail train amid a tangle of power cables and on the horizon the Foshay Tower is lost amidst a clutter of skyscrapers. The left image has a caption that reads "How it started..."and the right image has a caption that reads "How it's going"
December 3, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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I call on the resting soul
Of Galileo
King of night vision
King of insight.

I'm not making a joke
You know me
I take everything so seriously
The Pope singing karaoke
November 23, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Flying across the Washington Avenue bridge like a super-powered @chrissteller.bsky.social
November 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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At Loon Coffee
A cherry hand pie shaped like Minnesota with a heart where the Twin Cities are. Very buttery and tasty.
November 21, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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If you see this, post your getaway vehicle
A riverboat labeled "Anson Northrup Padelford Riverboats" makes her way upstream in the Mississippi River near Hidden Falls Park in St. Paul
November 21, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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STOP. This is a selfie checkpoint. You must repost with a cute selfie to proceed.
Bob as Klaus der Bäkker at the Minnesota Renaissance Festival
November 20, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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This is where I post from if you even care
No, it really is. This is the abandoned gas station and the abandoned Subway in the abandoned mining town when I live. I walked about 50 feet out of my house to take this picture. But the cell tower is actually how my data reaches the Internet.
November 17, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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"Poor immigrants have stolen your housing" has serious "that foreigner wants your cookie" energy.
Rupert Murdoch with a plate full of cookies is telling a white worker with one cookie that the person of color with no cookies is after the white worker's cookie.
November 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
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Blaming the housing crisis on immigrants making less than minimum wage rather than on fifty years of shitty government housing policies and rapacious corporations buying up housing to turn into rentals is full-throated "That foreigner wants to take your cookie" messaging.
A Dennis Lushch cartoon depicting Rupert Murdoch with a plate full of cookies warning a white worker in a visibilty vest with one cookie that a man of color with no cookies wants the white worker's cookie.
November 13, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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Here are my neighbor's final posts to Nextdoor before he died, murdered by an insurance company.

pluralistic.net/2025/11/13/p...
Four posts to Nextdoor by my neighbor on September 26, 27, 30, and October 1st 2025, all asking for medical assistance now that "The insurance company has sent me home in spite of my telling th[em]"
November 13, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Respond with the same actor as a hero and a villain.
Ronald Reagan from "Bedtime for Bonzo" with the chimpanzee. POS president Ronald Reagan
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Arizona basically sucks for me, but dining al fresco in November ain't bad
The Catalina mountains at sunset from our al fresco dinner before going to see the 40th anniversary 'Back to the Future' in the theater
November 3, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.
The cast of 'Time Bandits (1983)' featuring LtR Mike Edmonds as "Og," Kenny Baker as "Fidgit," Malcolm Dixon as "Strutter," David Rappaport as "Randall," Tiny Ross as "Vermin," and Jack Purvis as "Wally." They are holding the blueprint map of the Universe's holes and toasting the camera
October 23, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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In a common imagememe format a car labeled GOP traveling down a highway labeled "Law and Order" has taken a hard right turn at the last second to take an exit labeled "Fascist Chaos"
October 22, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Post a you from a different era
A colorized dork from the past stands backstage. Two text boxes read "Colors recreated by photoshop for your viewing pleasure." and "Me, circal 1975. Maroon print sweater, green plaid pants... and for some reason I couldn't get a date." I am also wearing white socks and black tennis shoes and a dorky expression.
September 30, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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I will refrain from vaporizing Sheboygan... For one MILLION dollars! Mwahahaha!
September 29, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Whee...
A page of "Den of Geek" article in which a small ad for a burlesque show is dropped in a large gray box more than twice its side, relegating the article content to a seven-or-eight character column on the left side of the page. Later the ads will rearrange themselves, and the words presently on the left side will retract above the top of the window, requiring one to scroll back to contine reading.
August 19, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Article content: 10/10. Attempting to read the article content on Chrome while ads dynamically resize themselves and squeeze the article content into a ten-character column on the left side of the page: priceless. Hey @denofgeek.bsky.social maybe fix this?
A screencap of an article in Den of Geek in which the ads resize themselves in weirdly arbitrary manner, placing small ads into a much larger gray boxes, resizing the text into a thin column on the left side. This would happen dynamically while scrolling, so that suddenly the text one was reading was now several pages further down the window, then it would resize again and one would have to scroll back up to resume reading... This never would have happened with a Gopher+ browser... ;-)
August 19, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Hangin' out at Hidden Falls Park watching the doggos play at the dog park across the Mississippi
#dogs #mississippi #summer
June 21, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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First trip to #England 1987 & I feel something brush past my leg. Turn to see a limousine easing through the crowd. I raise my camera as it stops and the Queen Mother climbs out. People live their whole lives in England and don't get within a mile of a royal, and I'm 10 feet away. #QueenMum #royal
Across the back of a black limousine with a yellow license reading "NLT 2" the Queen Mother of England holds a transparent dome umbrella in her left hand and waves to the crowd with her right while various henchpeople mill around between her and a door that reads "All the Queen's Men," circa 1987.
June 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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First England trip 1987 and I feel something brush the back of my leg. Turn to see a black car easing slowly through the crowd. I bring up my camera, and the Queen Mother climbs out. People live their entire lives in England and don't get within a mile of a royal, and here I am ten feet away.
Across the back of a black limousine with a yellow license plate reading "NLT 2" the Queen Mother of England holds a transparent dome umbrella in one hand and waves to the crowd with another while anonymous henchpeople mill around behind her, one hidden by a white umbrella. A door at her back is labeled "All the Queen's Men." Circa 1987.
June 13, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Using commands from "Blade Runner," we zoom in to Kelly's eyes to see what ACTUALLY makes him tick...
May 31, 2025 at 4:42 AM
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#lifetoday #oldreferences #clippy #tng
A meme of Clippy the Microsoft paperclip saying "You say there are four lights, can't you see there are five?"
May 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM